There can be no doubt that there is a perspective that adoption of the agile software development methodology is the popular choice of most organisations these days. However, if your organisation is vested in a waterfall approach to development and there is no compelling reason to switch to agile – Read more…
INVEST in the user story The INVEST mnemonic was the idea of Bill Wake back in 2003 as a reminder of the characteristics of a good quality Product Backlog Item or user story. Independent. A user story should be as independent of other stories as possible. Negotiable. A user story Read more…
A concept often used in the same breath as the Agile product development methodology is the Minimum Viable Product or MVP. To my mind, this is a sorely abused descriptor. Often I think, things get called MVP’s when they are nothing more than proving models or proof of a concept. Read more…